"!"
The Grand Patriarch was forced to become serious: "Are you a devil cultivator? Who are you people?!"
Seeing that he refused to speak, Ming Zhi Tian could only speak first: "Isn't it obvious? I am an outsider, and she is Yan Ran Qing Cheng."
"!!"
The Grand Patriarch was stunned: "An outsider immortal and Yan Ran Qing Cheng? Excellent, it seems providence has favored me. I never expected the two of you to walk right into my trap, you've done me a great service. Very well, if you surrender obediently, I guarantee I won't use harsh methods. What do you say?"
Ming Zhi Tian shook his head: "We didn't walk into a trap, but a golden opportunity. You can tell us who you are now, old man."
The Grand Patriarch was angered at first, then sneered proudly: "I am the Grand Patriarch, in charge of the entire Punishment Hall. Even if you are a devil cultivator, you should be trembling at my name!"
Ming Zhi Tian chuckled and mimicked him: "It truly seems providence has favored me. I never expected you, old man, to walk right into my trap and do me, this young master, a great service. Very well, if you surrender obediently, I guarantee I will use neither soft nor hard methods on you. What do you say?"
Yan Ran Qing Cheng couldn't help but smile. Ming Zhi Tian calling him an old man repeatedly successfully enraged the Grand Patriarch: "Kid, I'll make you regret being born!"
The Grand Patriarch summoned his star-grade artifact, the Long Drive Law Chain. Ming Zhi Tian smiled faintly, grabbed its end with one hand, and pulled him over.
He then leaped lightly! His fist slammed into the Grand Patriarch's lower back, and with a "crack...!"
"Ah..." My back!
The Grand Patriarch was pinned down with Ming Zhi Tian's foot on his face: "I'll give you a chance, Grand Patriarch. Go call for reinforcements. I'll beat every single one of them."
Subdued in one move, Yan Ran Qing Cheng looked at Ming Zhi Tian's heroic and imposing figure, thinking, "I never expected him to be this strong."
The Grand Patriarch quickly begged for mercy: "Immortal, spare me! Immortal, spare me! Just think of me as a fart and let me go."
Ming Zhi Tian sneered: "Think of you as a fart?"
"Yes, yes." The Grand Patriarch nodded repeatedly.
"Are you worthy of that?" Ming Zhi Tian sneered again: "Go call for people, did you hear me?"
The Grand Patriarch endured the humiliation, with no way to express his bitterness. If he had even a few hundred men under him, he wouldn't be cowering like this now.
He could only truthfully say: "To be honest, there's no one left in the Punishment Hall but me. Everyone else has been dispatched to assist the twelve Envoys in finding you."
Ming Zhi Tian said: "Tell me, twelve what-ers? What is their background?"
The Grand Patriarch dared not conceal: "They are all capable subordinates of the Divine King, sent specifically for Yan Ran Qing Cheng, this one here."
Ming Zhi Tian asked, unfamiliar with the term: "Divine King?"
Yan Ran Qing Cheng said: "The Divine King is Liu Li Qian Suo. He believes himself to be the Lord of All Gods, hence his self-proclaimed title, Divine King."
"Yes, yes, she's right," the Grand Patriarch said with a smile.
Ming Zhi Tian increased the pressure with his foot: "Did I ask you to speak?"
The Grand Patriarch was distressed: "Spare me, spare me, Immortal. No, ask whatever you wish, I... no! I will tell you everything I know."
Ming Zhi Tian nodded: "Let me ask you, where is the Law King?"
The Grand Patriarch quickly replied: "He is, he is! He is in seclusion cultivating in a secret cave outside the Punishment Hall mountain."
Ming Zhi Tian lifted him up: "Lead the way."
"Yes, yes..."
The Grand Patriarch looked at Ming Zhi Tian and only then noticed that his back was broken, hindering his movement.
Ming Zhi Tian, carrying the broken-backed Grand Patriarch, led him and Yan Ran Qing Cheng to the entrance of the secret cave on the outer mountain: "Two great immortals, the Law King is in there."